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The hill got its English name from a landowner, Ward, who had been evicted from his land during the invasion of Oliver Cromwell in 1649. The land was given to a Roundhead soldier. The Ward family, whose forebears were landowners of the hill and after whom the hill was named, are living in County Meath today.
The Hill of Tlachtga is associated with the Hill of Ward in County Meath, and its celebrations rivaled those at Tailtiu. The major ceremony held at Tlachtga was the lighting of the winter fires at Samhain (November 1). The ringfort built on the hill was associated not only with the kings of Mide, but also with Munster as well.
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The Ward River (Irish: Abhainn an Bharda), [1] sometimes historically the Swords River, is a watercourse of County Meath and northern County Dublin. About 18 kilometres (11 mi) long; [2]: 2 it runs through the town of Swords and then flows into the Broadmeadow River. The Ward is a salmonid river, with several species of fish, including brown trout.
Athboy (Irish: Baile Átha Buí, meaning 'town of the yellow ford') [8] is a small agricultural town located in County Meath. The town is located on the Yellow Ford River, in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. It is around 15 km west of Navan and 50 km north-west of Dublin. The town is in a civil parish of the same name. [8]
This is a list of numbered roads in the City of Hamilton, Ontario, in the former Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.After the amalgamation of the city and the region in 2001, most regional roads were de-numbered, leaving only a few arterial roads numbered, all of them (with the exception of HR 65) former provincial highways, numbered for continuity.
Mullaghmeen lies in the northern tip of County Westmeath, just inside the border with County Meath, and looks into the northern Lough Sheelin, which forms the border with County Cavan. [3] The hill is 16 km north of the town of Castlepollard. At 258 metres (846 ft), the summit of Mullaghmeen is the highest point in County Westmeath, however, it ...
Hughson was one of the founders of Hamilton along with George Hamilton and James Durand. [4] Originally, James Street was called Lake Road because it was the road that led to Lake Ontario to the north. It was then renamed Jarvis Street after city founder George Hamilton's wife (Maria Jarvis) and then finally changed to its present-day James. [3]